Encuentro en la Frontera, the first ever, multi-day activist arts festival, will be held in the Río Grande Valley Aug 16-18.
The project seeks to facilitate safe spaces, incubate creativity, activism and culture-shifting by developing solidarity resource networks with over 30 artists, organizations, and cultural centers throughout the Valley borderlands.
The event offers educational conferences, panels, fundraising relief efforts, humanitarian action planning, visual art exhibitions, workshops, and opportunities to network throughout the creative community of the Rio Grande Valley. Each day will end with a music showcase.
McAllen hosts the first day of the event, Aug. 16, at Grain to Glass. Day two, Aug. 17, in Brownsville is set at the Carlotta K. Petrina Cultural Center. Alton hosts the final day of the cross-cultural gathering at Pulga Los Portales.
Admission is free and open to the public. Attendees are encouraged to RSVP and make a donation via eventbrite.com.
Encuentro en la Frontera is established as an ongoing movement to unite and uplift narratives for creation, liberation, and protest at the grassroots level.
By expanding accessibility and inclusivity to the intellectual and material resources necessary to empower local communities, the project seeks to inspire and mobilize community strengthening at the intersection of art, education, activism, healing, and humanitarian action building.
Ticket links are:
DAY ONE MCALLEN: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/encuentro-en-la-frontera-day-1-tickets-66265402603
DAY TWO BROWNSVILLE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/encuentro-en-la-frontera-day-2-tickets-66267747617
DAY THREE ALTON: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/encuentro-en-la-frontera-day-3-tickets-66267926151
Instagram: @encuentrofrontera; Facebook: Encuentro en la Frontera 2019
